A Commentary about the Black and Latino Doctoral Experience in the United States

Abstract

The Central Educational Center is a product of multiple visions, desires, and hopes. The ideal vision isoutlined in a book entitled "The Eden Conspiracy" (Harless, 1997). Other perspectives include arequirement from local business that basic skills of high school graduates need to be rapidly improved,the desire of a growing local school system to provide costly industry-standard career-technicaleducation to all high school students, the vision of a regional technical college to "dual enroll" highschool students and make technical college a viable post-secondary option, and the hopes of aGovernor looking for a viable model to support his desire to reform education partly through a newinfusion of technical education opportunities.